The Numbers Man

$9.99

Pat, a 63 year old former geophysicist, desperate for romance, believes the only way to find a good woman on the Internet is to meet lots of them. Each one he meets asks him how many he has met. When he tells them, each one says: “So I am Number XX.” He remembers each woman’s number better than their name–who could remember all those names? Beth, #57, goes out of town for a long time so he takes up with Donna, #59, a lovely attorney. Meanwhile, his employee’s gorgeous young wife, Ruby, keeps hitting on him. Life becomes even more complicated when he meets Joyce,#61, a TV chef, who considers him a womanizer. Is the advice he gets from Sonia, his book promoter, selfless or self-serving?

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Weight

8 oz

Dimensions

5.5 x 8.5 x 1 in

Reviews

ChibiNeko*–December 6, 2017

The Numbers Man is the story of a 63-year-old retired and divorced geophysicist named…Pat Muir, who wants to meet a woman with the goal of a long-term relationship. His rationale is that meeting lots of women is the way to make that happen. The unsinkable Muir skates very close to disaster at times and in fact loses two women in one catastrophic night. But he perseveres in his search for the right partner, and I’d really love to tell you about the ending because I’m still smiling over it.

Vine Voice*–December 6, 2017

There really was a lot to like about this book. While Pat does come off a little old school, Muir manages to make the character likable & endearing. Readers will also enjoy the back & forths between Joyce & Pat, one of the more entertaining points of the book. Also interesting is when the reader begins to discover that the book is more than just fiction- it also seems to be partially based on the author’s own experiences in life, something Muir delights in poking fun at during the book.

Heart Lady*–December 6, 2017

As a senior looking for a long term partner, I find this book to be as real as it can get. This is written by someone that has experienced the perils of on-line dating and also the successes. It is a different perspective by a man versus usually from a woman’s viewpoint. There are humorous aspects to the book and the author also includes statistics about dating. Good bantering keeps the book alive. If this is autobiographical, then more power to the author and I hope he has found his true love.

Lesley West*–December 6, 2017

This is a somewhat quirky book, the tale of one man’s search for love on the net. At the heart of the novel is a search for love and companionship, and in the process we find out quite a bit about how our protagonist feels about the opposite sex – perhaps a little too much. It is very much a novel with a modern take on a modern issue – how do we find someone when our lives are so busy and full? An entertaining and quick read; clearly the author has given considerable thought to the matter.

B. Walker*–December 6, 2017

Muir (the narrator) has turned to the internet to find his Ms. Right, but in two years, has so far come up blank and has amassed a string of nameless women to prove it (he keeps track of them by number). Some of my favorite sections early in the book were devoted to his sorting of prospective matches, decoding “match speak,” and mentally making notations about past matches, reminding himself why he downgraded certain numbers. He eventually settles with #57, Beth, an insanely annoying woman. Putting up with her for the sex, Muir eventually makes a sort of game of timing how long it takes her to order dinner (generally it’s around twenty plus minutes). In the meantime, he’s dodging advances from his employee’s lusty, busty and very young new wife at the condo complex he owns with his ex-wife. Supposedly running her “hairdressing” business out of her place while she’s also trying to learn to keep the books for Muir, Ruby has a bad habit of disappearing into another man’s apartment or of enveloping Muir into one of her trademark boobalicious hugs. Muir also has a growing professional relationship with acerbic cookbook author Joyce, who first traded jabs with him on a radio program. She thinks he’s a misogynistic jerk and has no business putting out anything resembling a cookbook; he was happy to poke back at her a tiny bit for the sake of some good ratings and book sales. Now it looks like they may be thrown together for a new project and she’s not thrilled about it. The story is generally divided into three co-existing sections: Muir’s comedic attempts to avoid Ruby at the condo complex, his head-banging relationship with ditzy Beth and his book promos and working relationship with Joyce. Each eventually presents a set of choices Muir must make, and unfortunately he hasn’t exactly given up on his little number game either. Aside from the minor issue I had, this was a fun read. Muir the author obviously has had many of the experiences in the book, able to point the joke right at the heart of the situation. It was also a very nice little light romance; Muir the narrator is that guy just looking for love and you can’t help hoping he’ll find it before the end of the story.